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Melissa McCarthy discusses her Hollywood Walk of Fame star, Bridesmaids audition, Ghostbusters reboot, and behind-the-scenes moments on The Graham Norton Show.

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Key Takeaways

  • Melissa McCarthy’s career milestones include a Hollywood Walk of Fame star and iconic film roles.
  • Her improvisational style and willingness to get 'weird' helped her land key roles like Bridesmaids.
  • The Bridesmaids cast fostered strong bonds through shared experiences and research activities.
  • The female Ghostbusters reboot faced initial backlash but aims to entertain with humor and fresh perspectives.
  • Melissa’s background in theater and character work contributed to her unique comedic presence.

What the video covers

  • Melissa McCarthy reflects on receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the speech she gave.
  • She shares a humorous story about improvising a scene involving a dolphin during her Bridesmaids audition.
  • Melissa reveals early character headshots from her Groundlings Theater days.
  • Discussion of the close friendships and bonding experiences among the Bridesmaids cast.
  • Description of a women-only party bus outing to a gentleman’s club for research on Bridesmaids.
  • Melissa talks about the mixed fan reactions to the female Ghostbusters reboot and the film’s premise.
  • Insights into the characters’ roles as physicists in Ghostbusters and the film’s comedic approach.
  • Mentions of co-star Chris Hemsworth joining the Ghostbusters cast.
  • Humorous anecdotes about on-set moments and challenges during filming.
  • Melissa and Graham Norton discuss their mutual respect and friendship over the years.

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Questions about this video

What did Melissa McCarthy say about receiving her Hollywood Walk of Fame star?

Melissa talked about making a speech at the ceremony and joked about her husband and dad missing the event due to other commitments.

How did Melissa McCarthy describe her Bridesmaids audition?

She shared a funny story about improvising a long, weird tale involving a sexual encounter with a dolphin, which she feared might cost her the role.

What was the reaction to the female Ghostbusters reboot according to Melissa?

Melissa acknowledged the initial backlash and 'meltdown' among fans but emphasized the film’s humor and that it’s about funny people fighting ghosts, encouraging viewers to enjoy it.

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00:00
Speaker A
And now, Melissa, before you get another thing, Melissa McCarthy must be riding high because, uh, no, because you just got your own star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
00:10
Speaker A
Crazy. Yeah. Yes. And it's not messy or anything. You get to stand, you know?
00:16
Speaker A
I know. I was wondering who's the first person that's going to do something on it.
00:21
Speaker A
Oh, are you in that part of town down an alley? Just get this all for. But you got to make a speech and everything.
00:31
Speaker A
Yeah, I had to make a speech and Paul Feige, who directed our movie, made a speech and my husband, my dad was not there, shockingly, because he was deweeding the lake.
00:43
Speaker A
Busy, busy. Yeah, that weed was out of control. I know. He's a big fisherman and he was like, "It's my week. I gotta deweed the lake." I was like, "I'm probably not gonna get another
00:55
Speaker A
one of these." He's like, "I know, but the weeds." It's just shocking. He's usually like not. He's like embarrassingly supportive.
01:02
Speaker A
Like, it's too much. Yeah. Yeah. He sounds it, the weeds. I know. That's the only time he hasn't, he hasn't showed up for something. So, what is the story when you and Bridesmaids and a dolphin?
01:15
Speaker A
Oh, well, first of all, that makes it also sound real like I got into it with a dolphin.
01:21
Speaker A
Oh, God. It was in the audition and part of it ended up in the movie. When I went in, Kristen Wiig and I were improvising or we were reading a scene and I've known her forever, forever, and
01:34
Speaker A
the scene was about me falling off a cruise ship and because I'd known her so long, I kind of forgot about it being an audition and it was perhaps a little too comfy and she was like, so we started
01:45
Speaker A
improvising and I may have told like an eight-minute story about having a sexual encounter with a dolphin and I talked about it in play and it went on for a really long time and I feel like I went into some kind of weird
02:02
Speaker A
blackout and all of a sudden I realized like, oh my God, there's people sitting in chairs two feet from me literally judging me and that's when I decided to dazzle them with. I left and I was like the whole way home I was like you got to
02:14
Speaker A
get weird. You always have to get weird about screwing a dolphin and got really specific. And it was just awful. And then when I actually got the part, I was like, "Are you calling the right
02:30
Speaker A
person?" Like, I was so confused. I thought for sure they'd never speak to me again. So, oh, God.
02:35
Speaker A
So, so these headshots, before we show them, how did these headshots? First of all, I don't know how you got them because I literally thought I had the only two hard copies and when you sent them to me, I was like, "Dear God,
02:48
Speaker A
they're out there." Truly, like my, I had just moved to LA. I'd only done theater in New York for a very long time and I got my first commercial agent which was like above a sandwich shop. It was very, it was
03:03
Speaker A
very janky. So he told me that I had to get character shots and it's usually, I always found them silly because it's like do you really, if you're gonna play a cop, do you really need to see a
03:12
Speaker A
picture of someone like in a cop jacket? But I'd been working at the Groundlings Theater and I was doing this weird character of this woman who like gave out cheese samples in a grocery store and I was like, I'll do Carol. So I did
03:25
Speaker A
like two weird characters that like no one is ever going to hire these women.
03:29
Speaker A
Who's, who's the first one? The first one you're—oh God. THAT'S YOUR HEADSHOT. IT'S your headshot.
03:41
Speaker A
That's what you look like when you've had sex with a dolphin. Yeah, that's—I am 26 in that picture and I thought it was a great idea to put on a gray snarled wig and old lady glasses.
03:54
Speaker A
I'm like, sure, who wouldn't hire her? I think people might hire her before this next woman.
04:06
Speaker A
I'm in like a full sweat. Oh my God. That is from Western Barbie. I took her hat and I took her—THAT'S A HAT.
04:14
Speaker A
THAT'S A—IT'S a cowboy hat from Barbie. I thought it was like a bit of ravioli in your head. It's like a tiny, tiny cowboy hat on elastic.
04:26
Speaker A
Oh dear. So obviously all friends now, but Crystal and Melissa, we knew that you knew each other because of course Bridesmaids famously.
04:34
Speaker A
Even before then? Before then. Yes. Wow. Wow. Now we go, we go way back to the Groundlings Theater. Like Kristen was at my wedding. It was like we go way back years and years before Bridesmaids, 100 years back
04:48
Speaker A
in the land before Bridesmaids. So, but on Bridesmaids you did do a lot of kind of proper bonding on Bridesmaids, didn't you? Didn't you like party nights and stuff? We did a pre, my co-writer Annie and I had
05:03
Speaker A
the idea to get all the girls together plus the script supervisor, wardrobe, just all like the women on the film to be 40. There were a lot of people, 40 women. It was, it was pitched to me as research
05:15
Speaker A
because initially there was a scene where we went to a gentleman's entertainment, yeah, parlor or strip club or guy strip club or guy strip club. So we got in a, we got a party bus with a lot of alcohol.
05:30
Speaker A
We had like a lot of booze, weird poles, which I was always to hang on.
05:35
Speaker A
Didn't have the disco lights in the bus. Oh, fabulous. Yeah. And then we went to, we went to a strip club. And we watched the show.
05:44
Speaker A
They did vignettes. They did vignettes, which there was like backdraft. They would all come out in like fireman stuff and then it was like everything had the same theme and everything involved. It seemed like every number had a duster. Everything
05:58
Speaker A
had a long trench coat to the floor, a lot of equipment, but they did—do you remember the, do you remember the Matrix?
06:04
Speaker A
The Matrix one. Yeah. There was somebody playing Neo wonderfully and a lot of long trenches and guys in suits and everybody had these very cheap glasses on, but I couldn't figure out the one guy had a huge, huge thick rope around his waist
06:19
Speaker A
and I was like, I have not seen the Matrix in a while. I couldn't figure out—do you remember? Couldn't we were all like, what's the rope about? I don't remember a rope in the Matrix. And they're like doing these synchronized
06:30
Speaker A
dancing and it's like all this clothes is coming off. We're like put it on. And it went on and on. I'm still like I don't get what the rope is about. And then the big move comes where, you know,
06:40
Speaker A
the bullets come and he does like the back bend. Clearly this professional dancer could not do a back bend. So the big move was like all of a sudden it's like and somebody off stage is clearly holding the rope
06:56
Speaker A
and then he not like held this guy up as he was like that was my, that was yes, that was like a stand-up moment. Lot of themes, Ghostbusters, uh, directed by Paul Feige who also directed Bridesmaids. Yeah, very
07:14
Speaker A
good. And indeed Spy maybe. Why is he so surprised in that picture? Did they surprise him when they touched?
07:24
Speaker A
Now, it's always, it's always a challenge when you kind of dare to touch a kind of fan favorite, but it's fair to say when you guys announced there was going to be this female reboot of Ghostbusters, there was like Nerd Aedon. I mean,
07:38
Speaker A
oh my God, THAT'S THE BAD. THAT'S a perfect. There was a meltdown in Nerdland.
07:44
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah. Fellas all across the world in their mother's basements rose up. That was really. But you said, you said a funny thing.
07:54
Speaker A
You're like, it's like they announced they cast it with animals. They weren't even going to have human beings.
08:00
Speaker A
You know, it was also like the announcement came out and it's like we're going to burn every version of the original two, never to be seen again.
08:09
Speaker A
Like it was like it's not an either-or thing, guys. It's, they're, they're all, it's all still remaining. It's a film about funny people fighting ghosts, you know. Let's—it's a movie.
08:20
Speaker A
It's a movie, people. And I think when people see it, they'll be won over because they'll enjoy it. It's funny. And so in this world, who are you all? How, how do you become Ghostbusters?
08:30
Speaker A
Well, I mean, do you want to take them? Well, we're, we're physicists. She's a physicist and she's a physicist and I'm a physicist.
08:36
Speaker A
I work for the train. We kind of lose our job. I published a book. Kristen loses her tenure a
08:51
Speaker A
there are these problems in the world and maybe maybe somebody needs our help. And of course, another addition to the cast, our good friend Chris Hemsworth.
08:59
Speaker A
Yeah. I mean, now I think I think I've got a picture of Chris Hemsworth. Do you crying?
09:06
Speaker A
I do. I do. That's just him coming out of the him coming out of the trailer.
09:15
Speaker A
It's too much. It's crazy. I just at a certain point I thought I have never rooted for someone maybe to be just an unbelievable jerk.
09:25
Speaker A
I just needed something to be wrong with him. And there was nothing. No. And also for the four of you, it must be annoying because you got to think, "Oh, you're very funny." And here's this hunk.
09:35
Speaker A
He's annoyingly funny. Hilarious. We were like, "Did you bring writers OR SOMETHING?" CUZ LIKE HE was killing it.
09:42
Speaker A
like killing. He was funny like a guy that had to fight his way off the playground his whole life and he had to be funny so he didn't get his ass kicked which is how funny he was. It was very
09:52
Speaker A
strange. And at one point he started I don't know we were talking about music and we're playing something and I said what song are you talking about? And he started singing and I did not mean to but very
10:03
Speaker A
uh it was deep and guttural. I was like you shut up. You shut up Chris because it also like he started to sound like a song bird.
10:13
Speaker A
And I was like, you can't have another thing. I just just be quiet. I don't tell people to shut up. But I was like, you shut up because if you're also able to. And I said, can you sing? And he's
10:23
Speaker A
like, well, I can carry a tune. I was like, you shut up. Just never find out.
10:27
Speaker A
Something I'm going to pretend you're a terrible singer so I know you're human. I bet he doesn't even have boogers. I bet it's just a hollow.
10:36
Speaker A
Or if he does have boogers, they taste like cornflakes. crispy. Crispy like that, too.
10:47
Speaker A
Sweet, guys. Oh my god, he's hot, man. Can I just say I think I think we spent too long now. This is wrong. You can't spend this long discussing someone on a show.
11:00
Speaker A
We were sad when he left. We He got a cake. It was a lot.
11:04
Speaker A
Oh, and he ate it. He didn't get fat. He did not. He's talking about as he was eating cake, he got more chiseled, he got a little bit tanner. But weirdly, I didn't have any cake. And when he was
11:16
Speaker A
not eating his, I had gained like six pounds. Very quickly, we must talk about one more element of the film because it's it's in the original and it's back with the vengeance is the slime.
11:31
Speaker A
Where there are ghosts, there was what is it supposed to be? Ectopplasm or something.
11:35
Speaker A
Mhm. Nasty. Sorry, I said that like a doubter. Allegedly. It's ectoplasm. That's what that is. And Kristen, you get the bulk of it.
11:45
Speaker A
Yeah. When I read it in the script, I was like, "Oh, cool. I get slimed a lot." And after the first time when I found out what it was made of and how to get it off. Um cuz you can't um put
12:00
Speaker A
water on it cuz it like multiples. It's slim. It gets slimier. It's a real phenomen. I don't know.
12:07
Speaker A
Who came up with that? I don't know. There was There's always like four guys in masks going, "It's perfectly safe." Perfectly safe. I'm like, "Why are you on anywhere?" It was so slipper. You had to dry it. You had to take like a dry
12:23
Speaker A
washcloth, which just feels great anyway, and just like get as much as you can, and then you get in the shower and you're like, it just like it comes back.
12:33
Speaker A
It's a two. It's a two day. No, but it must have taken you forever to get out of here.
12:36
Speaker A
It did. It did. It's like you're you're encased yet. Yeah. I used her a lot to block. I never got slime. I used There's a scene in the movie. I was literally picked up and blocked her body with it. I may also have closeup
12:51
Speaker A
close-ups of Kristen laying on the ground getting violently slimed and I was like I want to be supportive but I'm just going to There's a lot of I like the closeup during torment.
13:04
Speaker A
Very good to see you all. Uh Melissa, welcome back to you. Cheers. I got caught right in the middle of it.
13:09
Speaker A
Woohoo. And now Melissa McCarthy, you uh you like a lot of people here, but you are a fan of Rick Ashley who's appearing.
13:16
Speaker A
Oh my gosh. The trench coat. The trench coat. The It was a real specific dance.
13:21
Speaker A
The the Canadian jumpsuit. The the Chamres. I was a big fan. Let's just Still a big fan.
13:27
Speaker A
Still a big fan. Yes. He's here. Currently was and yeah, right. He's watching this backstage.
13:34
Speaker A
Was what's going on? Still love. Still and of course you Jude, you worked with Melissa.
13:39
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah, we did. We worked together. I keep getting caught drinking. Together spy. Yeah.
13:44
Speaker A
There's no shame here, Melissa. You don't get caught drinking. I found my home. Yeah, you get found.
13:49
Speaker A
Well, I asked for a ginonic and I thought they put it I thought it would come in a glass like that so no one would know and now everyone's going to Wow, there should be a gold cruise ship
13:58
Speaker A
genonic in a very strange drink. I'll drink it with my little finger. Yeah, do that. And it's nice the two of you are friends now because was it awkward when you met on the on the set of Spy?
14:08
Speaker A
I didn't think it was. Have you got a story here? I I well I don't think it was my first we met out at a restaurant like to like get to meet everyone. It was lovely. Um it was a little I was a little nervous
14:24
Speaker A
to meet him. You've done 900 fantastic films. It was rather imposing. We were chatting. Jude comes in very charming, so personable, very like when you talk to him, you do meet and you're like you're really attentive. And it took me
14:37
Speaker A
a few minutes to just to just take it in. So I was weirdly sitting there and someone was telling a story and I you were sitting across from me and the waiters brought uh little baskets of bread to
14:50
Speaker A
the table and in my head I was like don't shouldn't eat bread. Probably shouldn't be eating bread. I'm not going to eat the bread although I wanted it.
14:56
Speaker A
And you said somebody said something and you laughed and I went bread completely out of context. The whole table stopped. coffee looked at me like I'd lost my mind. Everybody is like, "What's the matter with you?" And you
15:10
Speaker A
went, "Oh, would you like some bread?" And offered me bread. And then I was able to calm down. But there was just a couple minutes where I WAS LIKE, "BREAD." THAT'S LIKE THE only thing I could think to say to you. I'm sorry.
15:23
Speaker A
Not my finest moment. You are a Copper Potter fan. Like I really am like super super She's not making it up. Here there's another picture that Oh god, where are these pictures coming from?
15:35
Speaker A
I don't know. And what also what I like is that you've got two kids, but they're not in this picture.
15:40
Speaker A
Yeah. You're like, you guys are staying home. Yeah. We had wands. We had But like Fantastic Beast for me is like I don't know why that like made my my brain break a little. Like I loved it. I
15:53
Speaker A
really really loved it. Like I was so excited cuz your little girls Well, how little are they? How 11 and eight now?
16:00
Speaker A
Oh, so not so little. Yeah. But there has been the patter of some new small feet uh at your at your home.
16:07
Speaker A
Gigantic horse horses. I'm raising golden retriever horses. Two two new golden retrievers. They're massive and they're super pretty.
16:18
Speaker A
They all super pretty and super dumb. It's like it's like living with models. They don't they'll never like they'll never wait in a line. They'll never like have to take like a bad job. It's just it's Sometimes they go out into the backyard
16:33
Speaker A
and they'll just literally somehow I see them. I'm like, "What are they doing?" And I swear to God, I've watched Homer like catch light and then a breeze and it just like look back at you and you're like, "You look gorgeous."
16:46
Speaker A
Like in a weird scary way. And other people have seen it and that thought I was like exaggerating and then they see it. They're like, "My god, that dog found his light." Like it's weird.
16:55
Speaker A
But you're encouraging the model behavior because you've had proper beauty shots. Look at Oh my shot.
17:01
Speaker A
Which one's that? Homer or That's Harper. Harper. And this one this one's Homer. Here we go.
17:05
Speaker A
They'll be impossible. Guys, look at the chest here. Right. Yeah. But he looks wise, doesn't he?
17:12
Speaker A
He is. He's just constant. He He always is like, I'm so pretty. Oh, like it's always just like this sad like pretty like I don't know.
17:21
Speaker A
But then I like what you've done. You've taken beautiful dogs and then you've humiliated them.
17:27
Speaker A
You br them here as lions. Yeah, that's how I spend my free time, guys.
17:33
Speaker A
It's not weird. Weird at all. And then this one. This is like hand dog's tail. What is this?
17:40
Speaker A
I had at one point I was trying to get them to look like they were holding like loaves of bread, baskets, like they were like kind of like like fishing village women, but uh they didn't. They were just eating the bread. They're they're
17:52
Speaker A
my grand my grandmas. I know I need I clearly I'm like I need to do more with my life.
18:00
Speaker A
They're still finding the lens though, aren't they? Always they're always like they'll be all over the place and you get a camera out and they're like creepy.
18:11
Speaker A
Oh dear. Thank you so much for doing that. That is from uh the album Beautiful Life, which is still available indeed. And have you seen one of these in I haven't seen one in about 25 years. It's not
18:23
Speaker A
just vinyl. It's a picture disc. Oh, cool. It's a picture disc. And look on THE BACK AS WE TWO color picture disc.
18:33
Speaker A
I know that's the expensive kind. The sales are going up. I know. It's crazy. It is.
18:37
Speaker A
Yeah. I think you're about the first to come back with the pictures. Oh, I don't know. I think people are doing it, but I think it's just a joy. I think it's just I mean I remember that as a kid and collecting records and
18:45
Speaker A
really wanting the certain ones. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Just watching that mysterious face just twirling round. He's got a great big spot on that cheek actually. But yeah.
18:54
Speaker A
Yeah. Look at his eye. It's following me around the room. And he's watching me. He's still watching me.
18:59
Speaker A
You do have to be careful where they put the hole. Yeah. Well, it's the thing with the bus.
19:06
Speaker A
No, it's terrific. And of course, Melissa, if you want to take that, you I'm going to take that line also.
19:13
Speaker A
I'm I'm all Well, no, because Well, no, but no, because you joined the couch later earlier. Melissa was saying what a big fan she was. You also sorry okay never mind you also to match your dancing I would also like one if you have
19:25
Speaker A
another if not and then I will fight for it later and we may fight to the death like oh my god one of them died because Melissa was referring to the the famous your your the coat the coat you got to steal you got to
19:43
Speaker A
steal no that's that that outfit and I literally I was like oh my god I got to get a turtleneck I remember thinking like I have to get a turtleneck and a trench coat.
19:53
Speaker A
Yeah. Which is like a very short Midwestern woman shouldn't. To see you rock that. I think that could be Is it the crack of dawn there?
20:04
Speaker A
It is. I uh I just put on I put on a full kabuki face of makeup and then just and literally just like slept like a corpse. I was like pile it on. Good night. And this is how I woke up. So I
20:18
Speaker A
felt I felt like I was back in my 20s and like I just like last night I was at the palladium. I'm like this is how I used to wake up cuz Michelle Vazars you were just down in Australia. Not you were in New
20:30
Speaker A
Zealand doing you were in New Zealand drag race down. Yeah. Same hours though. Same type of thing.
20:34
Speaker A
Oh god. And I understand the sarcophagus sleep of just like I love that. And Octavia you guys have been zooming kind of throughout lockdown. Have you the two of you together?
20:46
Speaker A
Uhhuh. with a with a a group actually um watching the classic movies. So, how does it work? So, you you get an Oscar winning movie and you all watch it at the same time.
20:58
Speaker A
Well, Ben start we were originally we originally started meeting for drinks on Friday night because we were like we're all going crazy and then Ben was like we should probably do something of use and not just meet for drinks. And I was like
21:12
Speaker A
I'm fine with it. But so he's like I'm going to watch a I'm going to watch a different we're going to start at the top and he's like I'm going to watch all the be u best pictures that from the
21:22
Speaker A
Oscars and like one by one everyone's like oh I'll do that I'll do that and then it just kind of kept escalating by the time we got to Lawrence of Arabia our friend Steve Mallalerie was the one hosting it and he has a real affection
21:35
Speaker A
for that movie he showed up in full costume and it's a bunch of like actors and directors and producers and one by one, they were like, "Oh, is that what the game is now? I'll be right back." And like everybody kept running and it's
21:48
Speaker A
just stuff you have around the house because of the crazy pandemic. So people now it's like elaborate costumes, but they're made out of like, you know, paper towels and like garbage bags, but it's gotten fully out of hand.
22:00
Speaker A
No, cuz Melissa sent us a picture of this is you and Ben. Well, first of all, so you recreated the training scene from Rocky. So this is the scene they recreated. And here is Melissa and Ben recreating it.
22:18
Speaker A
It's not flattering. It's not flattering, but it's so it's almost like how stupid can you be, which you know, we're all we're thriving in that area.
22:27
Speaker A
So, talking of old friends, in your new film Thunderforce, you play old friends. The movie is streaming on Netflix from the 9th of April. So, who wants to tell us the story? It's a world where uh super villains are common but
22:42
Speaker A
superheroes are not and um these two friends find themselves back together uh when one of them um finds a way to uh give them superpowers to help their their city.
22:56
Speaker A
And Octavia, I hear you loved the costumes. I actually loved it. I was terrified though. I was worried because I run very hot, like 150 degrees hot. So, the thought of being in a in a super suit um
23:13
Speaker A
had me thinking that they're going to be hot. Oh, how is it going to move with us? And it was I was amazed because the first time that Melissa and I were on set in ours, we kind of naturally
23:25
Speaker A
started talking to each other and did this. You did this. I I I l I was like, "Oh my god, we're really superheroes because we keep taking this stance." I was like, "This is amazing." This superhero movie obviously stunts a
23:42
Speaker A
go- go. So, did you do many of the stunts yourselves? She does um quite a lot. She likes being in a harness. I mean, it's wonderful to watch her. Um uh me, not so much. I love uh the stunt woman.
23:59
Speaker A
lover. I thought maybe you were going to like it more cuz I was like, "Oh, she hasn't done this before and you know I I want to be 20 feet up and like spun around like a propeller and then Octavia
24:12
Speaker A
literally we had her in her harness the first day. Her toes were not off the ground yet. Like she's literally still touching the ground and she was like, "Oh oh." And we're like, "G, YOU'RE STILL ON THE GROUND." SHE'S LIKE, "NOT FOR ME. NOT
24:25
Speaker A
FOR ME. Cuz in terms of stunts, like Nick Mohab in Intelligence, your sitcom, like you're a computer geek, so presumably any stunt work you can do.
24:36
Speaker A
Oh, you think so? Um I I had to fall off a chair and they got a stunt person in to do it. And it was so lame. It was so lame. And I was desperate to do it, but
24:45
Speaker A
they just they were like, "No, no, no. We got to get someone in to do it." And and there was a bit where I had to look as if I've been tasered. And I think I did it for some of the close-up, but for
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Speaker A
most of it, they were like, "No, we'll get a stunt person to do it." And I think it's probably because my acting was so bad.
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No, it's work. It's worked for people because Frank, wasn't What's the story with you and David Bedil? You did a fight scene.
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Well, David Bedil and I had to do a scene where he hit me on the head with a big monkey wrench and I arrived expecting this rubber monkey wrench, but they just had a normal heavy piece of iron. And they said, "It's fine. Dave's
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gonna swing it and he'll stop about 4 inches from your head. I love David. We were in, you know, we've been in a double act. We We live in the same road still. He's like a brother to me, but I
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know he's incapable of those kind of motor skills. And I said, "If we do this, he's going to hit me on the head." And they all went and he and he got quite upset and said, "You're making me
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sound, you know, stupid." And I felt bad. And I said, "Okay, we'll do it." And we did it. Take one. He smacked me across the head. And the the pain of that knock on the head was, I must say,
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helped by the joy of having been so correct. Edison, it's been lovely to talk to you.
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Melissa, you got up early, but now you're going to look fabulous all day. You must leave the house. Leave the house immediately.
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I'm going to go to coffee like this and people will be so weirded out because people don't even wear shoes here and I'll be like, "Hello." Yes, it is I, Melissa McCarthy.
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